Chris Crutcher's newest book is best described as a psychological thriller. Period 8 is more than a lunch hour. It is time spent with Mr. Logsdon, AKA "Logs". It's not really a counseling session, more just time to sit and talk ...... about anything. The only rule is you have to tell the truth. Paulie takes the truthfulness to heart because it has caused the breakup with his girlfriend, Hannah.
So how does the "thriller" description develop? There is a student psychopath, a very well disguised psychopath, who has somehow enticed female students into a prostitution ring. This person's version of the truth is very different from the Period 8 truth. When Mary disappears from school the Period 8 students, along with others, search the nearby woods for her body.
Read the book....will Mary be found?
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